Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

The carving of a NWC mask often the work of a specialist

132-1-C-B-a040756
Item
[196-?]

Display for the museum. Uncertain relation to exhibitions. Shows two masks one in the process of being carved with tools nearby.

Textiles on display in visible storage

132-1-C-D-a041856
Item
[between January and May 1976]

Part of MOA General Media collection

Textiles on display in visible storage at the Museum of Anthropology.

Textiles on display in visible storage

132-1-C-D-a041857
Item
[between January and May 1976]

Part of MOA General Media collection

Textiles on display in visible storage at the Museum of Anthropology.

Textiles of the N.W. Coast

132-1-C-B-a040881
Item
1962

Part of MOA General Media collection

Display for the exhibit "Technologies of the North West Coast." Shows items such as a Chilkat Robe, woven hat, and other items.

Textile with interpretive diagram

132-1-C-B-a040722
Item
1966

Part of MOA General Media collection

Display "The Killer Whale." Shows interpretive diagram of a textile design.

Textile Fibre: Reeds and Grasses

132-1-C-B-a040878
Item
1962

Part of MOA General Media collection

Display for the exhibit "Technologies of the Northwest Coast." Shows examples of fibres and various stages of fibres being woven together to produce objects. Shows finished products such as baskets and nets.

Textile Fibre: Cedar Bark

132-1-C-B-a040897
Item
1962

Part of MOA General Media collection

Display for the exhibit "Technologies of the North West Coast." Shows cedar bark clothing, baskets, hats, a model canoe, and images of different uses of cedar bark.

Teslin traditional storytelling and singing by George Johnson

132-3-B-1-MAN-030
Item
[19--]

Part of MOA General Media collection

Item is an audio recording of George Johnston (Tlingit name was Kaash KlaÕ) at age 80 singing and speaking in either Haida or Tlingit. He was a hunter, trapper, entrepreneur and photographer and was known for documenting his family life and the Yukon community of Teslin, where he lived. For biographical information see http://www.nutaaq.com/productions/georgejohnston.html

Temporary Exhibits

132-3-A-2
File

Part of MOA General Media collection

Technology and Exchange, Kula Trade Ring

132-1-C-B-a040939
Item
[1969?]

Part of MOA General Media collection

Display for the Museum of Anthropology. Uncertain relation to exhibits. Possibly for an Oceania exhibit that may have been in place in 1969. Shows a net, necklaces, bracelets, a diagram of the Kula trade ring, and other items.

Technology and Exchange, Kula Trade Ring

132-1-C-B-a040942
Item
[1969?]

Part of MOA General Media collection

Display for the Museum of Anthropology. Possibly for an Oceania exhibit that may have been in place in 1969. Shows adzes fishing tools, jewelry, a map of the Kula trade ring, and other items.

Technology

132-1-C-B-a040940
Item
[1969?]

Part of MOA General Media collection

Display for the Museum of Anthropology. Uncertain relation to exhibits. Possibly for an Oceania exhibit that may have been in place in 1969. Shows a variety of fishing implements including hooks, lures, nets, and harpoons.

Technologies of urban specialization: Egypt: From 4,000 B.C.

132-1-C-B-a040731
Item
1967

Part of MOA General Media collection

Display for the "Mediterranean Exhibit." Shows most of the Museum of Anthropology's collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts including: blue-glaze faience ushabtis, glassware, and fine bronze tools.

Technologies of the North West Coast: Fibre, Stone, Wood

132-1-C-B-a040879
Item
1962

Part of MOA General Media collection

Introductory panel for the exhibit "Technologies of the North West Coast."

Tape for Mask Group, Anthropology 431

132-3-A-3-MOA-010
Item
[197-]

Part of MOA General Media collection

Item is a sound recording of material used in the UBC course, Anthropology 431. The recording features a speaker discussing Coast Saalish and Kwakwaka'wakw masks in terms of similarities and differences in form and meaning, particularly in reference to writing on the subject by Claude Levi-Strauss. The recording is related to the MOA exhibition Kwakiutl Masks: An Expression of Transformation, which took place from April 15 to December 31, 1979. The content of the recording is repeated three times.

Sxwayxwey masks on display in Montréal